a) Eggs come in 6 or a dozen. Fridge has little shelf with holes for 8 eggs.

b) I always feel as if a supermarket employee is gonna get really offended, and start telling me I can't open the eggs to check they're not cracked. They won't, because they honestly couldn't give a fuck, they're just trying to get through their shift. But the feeling is there. Egganoia makes me feel as if the security cameras are zooming in, though, making sure I don't pocket an egg. "Hey, we saw video of a woman in a supermarket in Russia shoving a raw chicken up her hoo-hah! It's not impossible you might wanna pocket an egg, fella!"

Eggs are probably one of the few grocery store items, where opening the packaging and checking them before purchase is a must do.

The real psychos are the ones just grabbing the top front carton of eggs and never checking it. You must live a much more charmed existence than me!

One time in like 2014 I opened the eggs for a glance to check for brokens at a Stater Bros outside San Diego and an older guy behind me said "yeah, those are eggs, move along" I just turned around and said "yes, but are they cracked?" and then walked off. Hopefully his rude and impatient ass felt stupid.

Anyway, now whenever anyone in my family checks the eggs, someone in the family will, without fail, say "yeah, those are eggs, move along". It's our little running joke and I wish that guy knew that we're still making fun of him 12 years later.

My mother taught me this at the store when we were little. The lady next to us got this like...fucking sudden realization on her face and she checked her eggs as well. It was wild lol.

At the moment where i am there's some shrinkflation nonsense where sometimes they'll lower the "average total" weight on the "mixed" size eggs but change nothing on the packaging (apart from the weight, on the bottom).

So I'm checking to see if I've got a pack of tiny eggs that just rattle around in the packaging.

But i do a rattle check first.

If I've got the tiny eggs i just buy a different brand instead (until they change it back)

Are people actually having issues of cracked eggs? I have never in my whole life ran into, or heard of anyone else running into a cracked egg in a carton.

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Greatest trick I learned is to open the carton, and then gently shake it side to side while watching the eggs. Check the ones that didn't wiggle.

I learned a quick tip from an old lady many years ago. Open the carton and use your first finger just to tip (slide) each egg a bit so you know it is not stuck to the bottom of carton. Quick and easy.

My little brother actually asked if he could "count the eggs" because he assumed that's what we were doing. 😄

In defense of walnuts they're very tasty and great in fudge.